MRS. YORKE MAKES A MATCH
  "If they git him, they'll hang him," pursued
the girl, without heeding him. " They're all up.
You are so popular."
  "Me " exclaimed JKeith, laughing.
  "It's so," said the girl, gravely. "That Dave
Dennison would kill anybody for you, and
they're ag'in' Bill, all of 'em."
  "Can't you get word to him " began Keith,
and paused. He looked at her keenly. "You
must keep him out of the way."
  "He's wounded. You got him in the shoul-
der. He's got to see a doctor. The ball's still
in there."
  "I knew it," said Keith, quietly.
  The girl gazed at him a moment, and then
looked away.
  "That was the reason I have been a-pesterin'
you, goin' back'ards and for'ards. I hope you
will excuse me of it," she said irrelevantly.
  Keith sat quite still for a moment, as it all
came over him. It was, then, him that the man
was after, not robbery, and this girl, unable to
restrain her discarded suitor without pointing
suspicion to him, had imperilled her life for
Keith, when he was conceited enough to moire
than half accept the hints of strangers that she
cared for him.
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